"Best Friends Forgive . . . Not Erase Them From Their Lives."

"Best Friends Forgive . . . Not Erase Them From Their Lives!"

Forgiveness is one of the toughest actions a human can perform, but it can also be a blessing in disguise. I mean, let's face it; for various reasons, we all get angry with each other every now and then and sometimes it can get ugly. You know what I mean, it's when the anger and hurt eventually turns to holding a grudge, which then leads to excommunication, which then leads to the end of a friendship that should have never happened.

Sometimes reconciliation is possible, it just requires both parties to release their anger, their grudges, their hurt and then "forgive." Below is a story by; Manish Kumar about best friends.

A story tells that two friends were walking through the desert. During some point of the journey they had an argument, and one friend slapped the other one in the face. The one who got slapped was hurt, but without saying anything, wrote in the sand: TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SLAPPED ME IN THE FACE. They kept on walking until they found an oasis, where they decided to take a bath. The one who had been slapped got stuck in the mire and started drowning, but the friend saved him. After he recovered from the near drowning, he wrote on a stone: TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SAVED MY LIFE. The friend who had slapped and saved his best friend asked him, “After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand and now, you write on a stone, why?” The other friend replied “When someone hurts us we should write it down in sand where winds of forgiveness can erase it away. But, when someone does something good for us, we must engrave it in stone where no wind can ever erase it.”

Remembering the good things a best friend has done for you can sometimes make you see that during your journey, they have always been there for you. Even when you think they weren't, they were, you just have to view it from a different angle. When and if this should happen to you, take out a piece of paper and write down every nice, helpful, encouraging,, comforting, thing you can think of that they have done for you through your years of friendship. Then ask yourselves; "Is the present situation we're experiencing worth extinguishing forever a friendship that took years to build, shape and sustain?" More importantly, with friendship comes "love" and love reigns above all things. at all times.